Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. will meet all mayors in Negros Occidental tomorrow at his office at the Provincial Capitol Building in Bacolod City, to discuss pasture development and management practices in sheep production.

“This year we will be venturing into sheep production, which I believe could significantly contribute tour local economy as one of the alternative livelihood opportunities for marginal farmers,” the governor wrote the mayors.

Marañon, in his letter to the mayors, said that in the development of the sheep industry, the province is establishing a public-private partnership as a joint venture of the pre- and post production within and outside Negros.

The Negros Occidental is purchasing 6,000 heads of sheep from Australia that are expected to leave Perth on January 19 and arrive in about two weeks time.

Marañon said his agenda is food security for the province and making it an agriculturally productive and self-sustaining one, not only in crops but in livestock as well.*LTG

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